Mr. Speaker, there is no case for abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board. There never was one, and the minister knows it. Now the chaos and uncertainty the government has created with its ideological crusade is actually driving business away.
The Wheat Board used to market 20 million tonnes of grain to 60 different countries, with every penny of profit going back into the pockets of Canadian farmers.
The Prime Minister claimed that killing the Wheat Board would create some kind of a free market nirvana. Will he now concede that all it has caused is insecurity for farmers, uncertainty for industry and instability for the rural prairie economy?